Mom 2 B!!

Last fall Karen and Dustin gave us a call to check out our email. Much to our happiness it was an ultra sound showing a BABY!!! We are so excited that there will be a sweet baby in our family!! A few months later, I was sitting at work and the florist walked in carrying a big bouquet of pink balloons! YES!! It's a girl!!! She is Due April 30th. Spring babies are wonderful.

Karen and Dustin were home for the holidays. As you can see in the photos, the baby bump looks great on Karen! I even got to feel the baby move. They have many cute names running through their minds, I'm sure whatever they pick for a name, it will be perfect for her. For pregnancy purposes, they are calling her Nellie. Congratulations Karen and Dustin.

Dustin, Karen and Nellie Davis

Meg's Quilt

Kimberlee has a huge heart and a dear friend.

Her dear friend Megan is suffering from Hodgkins Lymphoma. Kimberlee can't be there in person to help Megan, so she made the most beautiful quilt for Megan to take with her to all of the chemo therapy appointments that must be endured.

Kimberlee named the quilt "Group Hug". To remind Megan of all her friends and family that are with her

in spirit as she endures the trials. Megan is half way through

her treatments as of today (mid January).

I am so proud of the love and compassion that my daughter has

for her sweet friend. Our prayers go to Megan throughout this

trial.

While Karen and Danielle were here for Christmas, they took a day to go hang out with Grandma LaNae and learn to knit Grandma's famous knit stockings. Although they had a great day, Grandma said they didn't talk much, they were busy counting.

Kimberlee and I drove down later and had dinner with them. Then we checked out Mom's new job - the hospital volunteer. Mom (aka Grandma) took us on a tour of the hospital. Each floor had huge murals painted on the walls in the childrens wing. Then we went and checked out Ikea - fun store. Everywhere that we stopped for a minute, Yellie would pull out her knitting. She also knitted all the way home, then sat in bed till late in the night...you guessed it...still knitting. She has become a knitting fool. It was a great day. Danielle to date has finished one stocking and is half way done with the other. It turned out great. I will get Karen send a photo to post. Thanks Grandma/Mom for passing on one of your wonderful talents! We Love You!

Franklin Group Hawaiian Luau

ALOha!!! - Last Saturday was the Franklin Group Real Estate Summer Party
Good food, great friends, great fun with a killer 4 ofc volleyball tournament thrown in!!

Marino was the Big Kahuna who planned the intense office Volleyball competition!!!! The trophy was HUGE....The Morgan Maniacs had really planned to take the trophy home, but due to circumstances beyond our control, that didn't happen this year....But watch out, we will be totally ready next year!! (Matt said he would make us our own Morgan trophy anyway...whataguy!!! ;-).....

Cathie & college (UVU) bound son David

Cathie's younges son Matt....voted Most Likely to be mistaken for a moviestar!!!!

Cindy, college bound (USU) Danielle and hubby Scott (can't take him anywhere without him acting up!!)

Danielle at USU

Danielle headed to Logan last Tuesday for "Connections" week - in the olden days we used to call it Hello Week. Unable to get into her apt until Friday, Yellie and Lacie stayed with Amanda & Josh (thanks guys!!) - our Logan relatives. After classes, dances, hikes and fun all week - Danielle was able to move into her apt on Friday. Scott and I drove up the with the rest of her household items, took a city tour with her and then went to the famous BlueBird cafe (yummy) for a nice visit.

It's a darling apartment with 4 girls - including high school buddy Jessica (affectionately called Jessiker by me n Scott). Her other 2 roomates are from the SLC area and are Juniors. As shown in the photo - there are plenty of pillows and a sideboard (formerly a headboard before we got hold of it!!!) It was pretty hard leaving her there - but we know that she will do fantastic at school and will have a great time! Yellie we love you!!!

Oh yeah - and just so everyone knows now - It is OFFICIAL: We are now Empty Nesters!! tweet tweet!!!!!!

WCR Leadership Conference

The National WCR Leadership Conference was held this past weekend for all State and Local Chapter President Elect's. This was to teach us that 1) There is so much that we didn't know 2) To help us all realize that there are other women all over the USA that are in the same boat and 3) To give us TONS of Info that will help us all do a great job next year for our chapters!!

The above photos were of the women from the Utah Chapters who attended the conference - we all went out to a fantastic Chicago authentic Italian restaurant on Friday night and then walked down to a waterfall for some fun photos. The 2010 officers in Utah are L to R: Kathy Vause - St. George Chapter, Pam- Utah County Chapter, Cindy Kay - Northern Wasatch Chapter, Vickie Fulkerson - State President Elect and Deanna Dippo - SL Chapter. They are a great group of ladies and I look forward to working with them and seeing them at the conferences this next year! Good Luck in your Chapters!!!



Enjoying the nice Chicago weather and the beautiful flowers and waterfront walkway!!!!

Yellie n some Dummies

Danielle has graduated from High School, worked all summer and completed an internship at my real estate office and now.....tomorrow she is leaving for a week to hang out with Benita in North Carolina!!! Benita is a sweetie and bought Yellie a ticket for graduation. It is much better that Yellie will be hanging with Benita than with the dummies I recently saw her with (see photo above!!).

Danielle - I am so proud of what a hard worker you are and know that you will do great at college and in life. Be Happy. Be Blessed. I Love You!! Mom

Flowers Sisters

Flowers Sisters: June Flynn, Vi Shore, Betty Larson, LaNae Dalton, Merle Banks & Linda

Last week Mom's sisters Vi, Merle and Linda all came into town. So a get together was thrown together at a nice park with a bowery. It was such a hot day. But WONDERFUL seeing the sisters all together, along with many of my cousins, second cousins, etc....

I bet there were about 150 people there...it was too hard to count with all the kids running around...and this was just a portion of the relatives. My uncle Dick, cousins Sandi, Carla and Pam also came into town. I really enjoyed the day and I LOVE my relatives!!

L to R: Kendra, Brenda, Taylor and Heidi

The Best part of this get together was that Brenda, Dave and the girls were also in town. Heidi left 4 days after this photo to go on a spanish speaking mission to Phoenix, Arizona. I know Heidi will do great. What a great family!!

Movie Premier

Spur o' the moment....Kimberlee was given 4 tickets to the 7:30 pm EARLY premier of the new Harry Potter Movie. It was up in Perry. Kai won a door prize for food as we walked in. We got to have our photos taken with Hagrid and Dumbledore...they even put us in robes and we got a magic wand. (It was too embarrassing for Scott and Kai...so they walked away pretending they didn't know us.) Kimberlee and I posed very nicely....I will put the photo on when she gets it back.
Once inside we had great seats....then the raffle came...right off the bat they called Scotts #....good thing it was him, because it was a trivia question contest. Scott WON!!! Wahhoo. If it would have been me, I don't know much about the movies (or books). Scott and Yellie are the experts. Scott won a basket with candle, lotion and more. He is SO smart!!! Anyway....fun night, good movie and great company. When we came out there was a big line for the Midnight showing of Harry Potter....Lots of people dressed up. Fun nite for spur o' the moment fun!

Afghanistan Shooting practice

Denny and a few guys had the opportunity to practice shooting out in the Afghanistan desert. He said it was pretty fun and gave them a break from regular (if you can call it regular) work. The terrain kinda reminds me of the west desert here in Utah.

You can look on Denny's blog to read more about these. Denny, thanks for serving our country. I am so proud of you and love you. Be Safe. Love, Mom ps: Thanks for posting photo, we love hearing from you!!!